What would you like to see in future Retropie releases

skj

A background music option that can be turned on/off via the Ui main menu

stephan311280

easy way to see disk space
-meta data on/off switch
-over clock option
-gamelist with wheel art ?

vikingrock

Hello Retro friends,

I would like to see the following:

1 - Daphne Singe emulator to play American Laserdisc games;
2 - A updated Daphne emulator running more games;
3 - A updated Mame 2010;
4 - Retroachievements appearing on emulationstation with popup icons;
5 - virtual keyboard on emulationstation;
6 - languages option;
7 - a easy way to put kodi on main menu;
8 - clock appearing at the the top on emulationstation;
9 - more options on scrapper on emulationstation;
10 - a updated retroarch;

jonnykesh

@vikingrock You're not asking / wishing for much are you??? Maybe ask Santa for one of those...

Omnija

Id like to see display time feature added.

vikingrock

@jonnykesh

Dear Johhny,

This is a wishlist, ideas...

I´m 38 years old school gamer, I dont believe in Santa...

Graphicsgod

@hex

I would love screen saver support! Either loading a video(s) to be played, a slideshow of custom images, and/or a program that randomly picks a game loads it, then quits after a certain time, then loads another random game and repeats till the user presses a button. Would kill for this feature!!

Another thing I would love is being able to change the "Emulation Station" image with a custom one, removing it entirely and just having text on the screen instead.

And lastly off the top of my head, a way to lock it down to where pressing "start" won't do anything unless you go into the "options" menu and reinable it. And that too would be locked down with a password. This way you can let kids, family play without worry of f'ing up your hard work!!

lilbud

@graphicsgod

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6332/video-screensaver-in-emulation-station

Hex

@graphicsgod said in What would you like to see in Retropie 4.3:

program that randomly picks a game loads it, then quits after a certain time, then loads another random game and repeats till the user presses a button. Would kill for this feature!!

This is a good Idea that i might get to this weekend

@graphicsgod said in What would you like to see in Retropie 4.3:

Another thing I would love is being able to change the "Emulation Station" image with a custom one, removing it entirely and just having text on the screen instead.

You can disable it. If you want a custom startup sceen you will need to ding through sources and recompile.

@graphicsgod said in What would you like to see in Retropie 4.3:

And lastly off the top of my head, a way to lock it down

This is in todo list. Some dev is or will surely pick up on it

EctoOne

@graphicsgod to disable the ES loading screen you have to put <bool name="SplashScreen" value="false" /> in your es_settings.cfg. Although I wish it was an option in the gui because I have to redo that after every update.

The only thing that I really want is, one more image (screenshot) that can be read from the gamelist and that md_marquee was available in detailed view. Especially with grid view getting closer that would be great. Because, as much as I like the mix images from Universal XML scraper, I believe that those wouldn't suit grid view. So I either have to use covers only in detailed view or mix images in grid view. If I could have md_marquee and (something like) md_screenshot, I would be able to recreate my mix images (or something else that looks nice) and also would be prepared for grid view.

jonnykesh

@vikingrock Okay, then you should learn to code. Half of your requests (demands) Have noting to do with RetroPie. Those are upstream, child... The rest are pointless or you could actually help yourself. People can be demanding, I just laugh.

Hex

@jonnykesh This is not a thread for feature request. It is a thread to get ideas and user opinions. The devs browsing this thread might like a feature enough to incorporate it.

There is nothing upstream to retropie ES. It is the only fork in active development.

It is ok to share Ideas and requests here. A request is not a guarantee that it will be done.

jonnykesh

@hex Okay. I'm wrong then. I’d like a pony with every download. I would love RetroPie to integrate with my coffee maker too. I would love a non-stolen idea in every child's ear...

vikingrock

@jonnykesh Dear Johnny, Like Hex said, this is a place to share ideas. I think that share wishes and ideas is not sin. You must to be respectful with others... You dont need to be sarcastic... Kindness, understanding and respect is a pillar of any conversation...

I'm new in Pi scene and recently I have migrated from Recalbox to Retropie because the Retropie, in my opinion have more options, customizations and a better scene and community is more active.

meleu

@vikingrock welcome aboard bro!

vikingrock

@meleu Thanx my friend... I'm a old school gamer and my first console was a Atari 2600 in 1982, since them I have passed from all console generations, from Nintendo to Neo Geo cd, Sony , 3do and today I have PS4.

But I love old school games, especially Arcades, Laserdisc games, 8 and 16 bit generations.

I was very active player in Arcades... All good nostalgic memories...

I'm really happy to discover a Retropie scene, because today I can revive the old good times playing my favorite Arcades and consoles in confort of my home.

Retropie to me is a time machine... If you think that I'm game collector, you are wrong... I'm collect memories...

I will never forget the day that I saw the first Double Dragon in Arcade... That vision changed my life and blow my mind...

meleu

@vikingrock said in What would you like to see in future Retropie releases:

I was very active player in Arcades... All good nostalgic memories...

You should join us in the MAME ROWs. ;-)

mahcneto

I would really love 2 things:

-Atari800XL emulator without a mandatory keyboard and all the main keys mapped to the joystick, and being able to choose bewteen pad and analog stick (I know there's a way with that xbox360 driver tutorial but it's kinda hard to do honestly, for the ones that has zero knowledge about it)

-A way to play Zapper/Super Scope type games!

HurricaneFan

@mahcneto Light Gun games for home consoles would be amazing!

czarnia

A demo mode. Maybe from the games of a collection. Like the tv demos in stores. Launch a game from the list and change to another one (random?) in 10 minutes (configurable?).